Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Blogging Against Disablism Day 2012

Thanks very much to everyone who helped to spread the word and to everyone who blogged against disablism, ableism and disability discrimination.

If you have a post for Blogging Against Disablism, please leave a comment including the URL (web address) of your post and the catergory your post best belongs to.

We'll be updating this post throughout the day to create an archive of all the posts. We'll also try to post links to every blog using the Twitter stream @BADDtweets

The amazing Stephen has helped me this year, but even with two people, there are bound to be typos, so please be patient and let us know if you notice any mistakes.

If you happen to have a round-up post of your favourite blogs from the day, please let us know. Claire from OT on Wheels put together Archives of tweets for the hashtags #BADD12 / #BADD / #BADD2012 whilst @spiegelmama created a Storify of the day

Blogging Against Disablism 2012

Employment(Disability discrimination in the workplace, recruitment issues and unemployment).

Other Access Issues(Posts about any kind of access issue in the built environment, shops, services and various organisations. By "access issues" I mean anything which enables or disenables a person from doing what everyone else is able to do.)

Disablism Interacting with Other 'Isms'(Posts about the way in which various discriminations interact; the way that the prejudice experienced as a disabled person may be compounded by race, gender, age, sexuality etc..)

BUT, if you decide to create a category for Disablism in a Global Context (or something similar), then my post could also fit in there because I have loads of links to various reports on the situation of people with disabilities in both developed and developing countries around the world. Up to you, it's your event!

My post (2) are probably very very rambling but we have endured discrimination and the like over many years, it took along time to discover that many other injured people are heavily discriminated against seemingly on the pretext of it not being discrimination because its all for their or the greater good.On the positive side years of heavy and at times very scary discrimination have had very positive effects, we are very poor, in monetary terms but have learned many valuable lessons and while we probably should be a s miserable as Sin for all we have been through are perversely not I guess the lesson is Discrimination of any form, like War achieves nothing for anybody.

Unfortunately it's very uncomfortable to read on the theme so I posted it to my otherwise so far non-English tumblr too where readablility should be better: http://maschinenwalzer.tumblr.com/post/22186717220/blogging-against-disablism-day-2012

I think it fits the politics category but feel free to file it elsewhere.

Thanks for including my post, Goldfish! I've now revised the title of my post from "Why Fight Disablism?" to "Why Fight Disablism? A Global Perspective" -- I'm at We Can Do, which you filed under "General Thoughts on Disablism"

I posted on my Tenerife destination blog about BADD, the need for awareness and some of the facilities available for those with reduced mobility travelling to Tenerife. I guess the best category would be Access Issues but not sure.

The title of the piece is "All Too Familiar", and it's about the assumptions our families and carers make about our disabilities and how that can hurt. I'm not sure where it would fit, but hopefully that summary will make it obvious to you where in your categories it should go.

I wrote one on general ableism (http://thoughts-of-nothing.tumblr.com/post/22192050450/blogging-against-disablism-day) and, by a friend's request, a personal journey (http://thoughts-of-nothing.tumblr.com/post/22195680351/by-request-living-with-chronic-back-pain) about going to university with chronic pain.

Goldfish - here's mine! http://kethry.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/deaf-experience-of-higher-education/ bit late, but better late than never! If you post on the twitter feed, can you link to kethry twitter feed rather than my real name one? Ta!! xx

Here is my post "I've never met anybody who wasn't important before." It's not very good and I think it should go in the general category. It's also a bit late. But on the plus side, Doctor Who references!http://sanabituranima.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/badd-2012-ive-never-met-anybody-who-wasnt-important-before/

It's still May 1st in Vancouver... I've made a new post on AthletesFirst - a blog about disability sport - as part of Blogging Against Disablism Day 2012. Fantastic idea and I can't wait to read all 111 blogs (and counting)... that's my project for May 2nd :)

Late here too--but I wouldn't want DSTU to drop the ball after six straight years of joining BADD! Here's my post, for the History section I think:http://disstud.blogspot.com/2012/05/badd-2012-history-is-still-happening.html

I'm way late here, but since I've participated in BADD in the past, you may find this post I did "The Path of the Disabled Man" http://www.nickscrusade.org/the-path-of-the-disabled-man/fitting under the category of sex and relationships

I've never written about gender before. This is an attempt to convey something of the disabled male's lived experience, and I hope it works.